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{{DISPLAYTITLE:Korcula History 2}}
{{DISPLAYTITLE:Korcula History No2}}
[[File:The Tower.jpg|thumb|left|275px|One of Kocula's towers built during the rule of the ''Republic of Venice''. Photo by [[Directory:Peter Zuvela|Peter Zuvela]]]]
[[File:The Tower.jpg|thumb|left|275px|One of Kocula's towers built during the rule of the ''Republic of Venice''. Photo by [[Directory:Peter Zuvela|Peter Zuvela]]]]
[[File:250px-Croatia-Dalmatia-1.jpg|thumb|right|400px|Dalmatia (the dark purple) within todays modern [[Croatia]] The island of Korcula is marked red.]]
[[File:250px-Croatia-Dalmatia-1.jpg|thumb|right|400px|Dalmatia (the dark purple) within todays modern [[Croatia]] The island of Korcula is marked red.]]
'''Above''' taken from [http://www.croatia-in-english.com/gen/Kor-names.html www.croatia-in-english.com Korcula names-Tom Ninkovich].
'''Above''' taken from [http://www.croatia-in-english.com/gen/Kor-names.html www.croatia-in-english.com Korcula names-Tom Ninkovich].
[[File:800px-Korcula City.jpg|thumb|right|325px| Town of Korcula]]
[[File:800px-Korcula City.jpg|thumb|right|325px| Town of Korcula]]
==Encyclopaedia Britannica's (publ. 1911) ==
Article on Korčula from 1911:
{{Cquote|''Curzola, the capital and principal port, is a fortified town on the east coast, and occupies a rocky foreland almost surrounded by the sea. Besides the interesting church (formerly a cathedral), dating from the 12th or 13th century, the loggia or council chambers, and the palace of its former Venetian governors, it possesses the noble mansion of the Arnieri, and other specimens of the domestic architecture of the 15th and 16th centuries, together with the massive walls and towers, erected in 1420, and the 15th-century Franciscan monastery, with its beautiful Venetian Gothic cloister.''
''The main resources of the islanders are boat-building (for which they are celebrated throughout the Adriatic), fishing and seafaring, the cultivation of the vine, corn and olives, and breeding of mules. In 1571 it defended itself so gallantly against the Turks that it obtained the designation fidelissima. From 1776 to 1797 it succeeded Lesina as the main Venetian arsenal in this region. During the Napoleonic wars it was ruled successively by Russians, French and British, ultimately passing to [[Austria]] in 1815.'' <ref>[http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Curzola Encyclopaedia Britannica (publ. 1911)]</ref>}}
== See also ==
== See also ==
* [[Directory:Historical Compendium of the Island of Korcula| Korcula History (Historical Compendium of the Island of Korcula)]]
* [[Directory:Historical Compendium of the Island of Korcula| Korcula History (Historical Compendium of the Island of Korcula)]]
